Cullinan Oncology Inc. and Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. announced an agreement through which Taiho will acquire Cullinan Pearl Corp. and co-develop and co-commercialize Cullinan Oncology’s lead program, CLN-081/TAS6417, an orally available, differentiated, irreversible EGFR inhibitor that selectively targets cells expressing EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations, while sparing cells expressing wild-type EGFR in non-small cell lung cancer.
Non-classical mutations are present in 20-30% of all patients with epidermal growth factor receptor-mutated non-small cell lung cancer, according to an analysis of real-world evidence presented by Black Diamond Therapeutics, Inc. at the American Association of Cancer Research annual meeting.
